Updates

Happy New Year LeadingAge Indiana Housing Providers.  Please let us know how we can assist you in 2024!

 

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LeadingAge Indiana Leadership Program 2024 – Be on the lookout for this exciting new leadership training program in the coming month(s).  Leadership training benefits the individual leader-employee, but it is also very beneficial to the long-term success of your organization. Whether you believe leaders are born or made, in order to build a high-performing team, optimize your staff’s expertise, and prepare the next generation of well-rounded leaders, employers must invest in leadership development.  We will be in touch!

Housing Network Call on Mondays – next call January 15. The LeadingAge Housing Network meets Mondays 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. ET for our regular weekly call. All LeadingAge members are welcome to attend.

Join the Housing Network call here.

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Register Today: HOTMA Implementation Q&A with Jenny DeSilva – January 25, 2 p.m. ET. Mark your calendars for our next free, members-only HOTMA Q&A session: January 25 at 2pm ET. We’ll be joined once again by Jenny DeSilva, President of DeSilva Housing Group, to discuss all things HOTMA implementation for mission-driven housing providers. The summary and recording of our December 12 Q&A session, where we discussed asset limits, passbook rate adjustments, TRACS errors, and more, is available here.  

HUD Publishes Green and Resilient Retrofit Program Supplemental Notice. On January 8, HUD published a supplemental Housing Notice to add flexibility and make administrative changes to the Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP).  LeadingAge encourages our membership to apply for the GRRP’s rehabilitation funds, and to leverage the accompanying energy benchmarking support now available from HUD. More information here. 

Affordable Senior Housing Policy: LeadingAge 2023 Year in Review. Throughout 2023, LeadingAge’s housing policy team’s efforts focused on three key areas: advocating for housing support and policy initiatives to improve operations as well as providing members with engagement opportunities, tools and educational opportunities, and other resources. See our table for a summary of 2023 activity and achievements.

LeadingAge Workshop Series: New Service Coordinator Grants from HUD, January 11 and February 8, 12:30 p.m. ET. On December 13, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced new funding for Service Coordination grants in affordable senior housing, and recently updated the application deadline to March 14, 2024. The Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) posted by HUD will fund approximately 160 Service Coordination programs across the country. To learn more about how to apply, join LeadingAge’s workshop mini-series – free and exclusively for LeadingAge members. We’ll review the application requirements and HUD’s selection process, and we’ll walk through examples. Register here for the January 11 and February 8 workshops, both at 12:30 p.m. ET. 

Housing and Service Resource Center Hosts Service Coordination Webinar, January 31, 2 – 3 p.m. ET. The federal Housing and Services Resource Center (HSRC) is hosting a webinar on January 31 to review two Service Coordination models in affordable housing. Service Coordination is critical for independent aging by connecting older adults to the services and supports in the community. The webinar will look at two models for braiding funding streams across sectors to maximize the use of existing resources and broaden access to service coordination. The HSRC was launched in partnership between the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Housing and Urban Development and helps foster cross-sector collaboration to provide health and housing services. Register here for the webinar.   

Affordable Housing for Rural Veterans Grants. The Housing Assistance Council’s Affordable Housing for Rural Veterans Initiative supports local nonprofit housing development organizations that meet or help meet the affordable housing needs of veterans with low incomes in rural places. Grants typically range up to $30,000 per organization and must support bricks-and-mortar projects that assist low-income, elderly, and/or disabled veterans with critical home repair, make accessibility modifications, support homeless veterans, help veterans become homeowners, and/or secure affordable rental housing. The AHRV Initiative is funded through the generous support of The Home Depot Foundation. Applications are due by 4 p.m. ET on Monday, January 22. For more information, contact ahrv@ruralhome.org.

New LeadingAge Resource Available on Navigating Management Fees in HUD-Assisted Housing. Management agents operating HUD-insured and HUD-assisted properties are paid a management fee for their services. This new resource for LeadingAge members explains how HUD establishes management fee ranges and discusses how properties can request adjustments.  

HUD Returns to In-Person Management and Occupancy Reviews. More information here. 

HUD Posts Strong Operating Cost Adjustment Factors for 2024. Additional info here. 

HUD Clarifies HOTMA Asset Limit Implementation Timing. In a message to affordable housing stakeholders on November 29, the Department of Housing and Urban Development clarified timing for implementation of the new asset limitations under the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act (HOTMA). Among other changes to affordable housing rules, HOTMA establishes new restrictions on eligibility for HUD assistance in project-based Section 8 programs based on household assets. Housing providers will take steps to become HOTMA compliant during 2024, but HUD made stakeholders aware that Multifamily Housing providers must not enforce the new asset limitations on impacted residents until both the housing community’s software is HOTMA-compliant and the household has signed a model lease detailing the new HOTMA provisions.  More information from LeadingAge on HOTMA is available here.

COVID Tests for All HUD-Assisted Providers.  For more information and to place orders, visit this link.

HUD Announces New Streamlined Enrollment Process for Affordable Connectivity Program. HUD announced a new data-sharing agreement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to enable streamlined eligibility verification for residents of HUD’s Multifamily Housing programs to enroll in the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP).